Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1893 — A CIRCUS WRECKED. [ARTICLE]

A CIRCUS WRECKED.

Walter Main’s circus was wrecked on the Tyrone <fc Clearfield branch of the Pennsylvania - road at Vail Station, Pa., five miles north of Tyrone, at 5:30 o’clock, Tuesday morning. Five persons were killed and ten injured. The circus was en route to Lewiston. The engineer lost control of the train going down the mountain, and it jumped the track when going down at a speed of forty miles an hour, throwing fourteen cars over a fourteen foot embankment. The most of the animals are badly hurt and a number escaped to the woods, but were recaptured. The train is badly demolished. One of the killed was Frank Train, of Indianapolis, the treasurer of the concern.